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Georgie Hobson (19th century), “The Phantom Guests”

oil on canvas, n.d.

It's old-fashioned. It's modern. It's butch. It's femme. It's snazzy. It's practical.

Wikipedia talks about the bloomers and the leg-o-mutton sleeves, but I'm also noticing a lot of these outfits have absolute supervillain lapels, which I also like a lot.

like. my evidence

While pre-turning Apo certainly doesn’t come off as normal(the raw meat incident, claiming she doesn’t care while being willing to do dangerous things to help others, sailing a boat off a cliff), analyzing her behavior through the lens of the Fernsfield massacre (Apo being the only survivor of a crazy mass casualty event) makes me think there’s some serious compartmentalization going on. She still clearly cares and is beginning to get along with other people, but there’s this edge of distance to her that both aligns with the amount of trauma she must have…and still doesn’t quite hint at its severity. idk how else to describe it

“my final tour” Apo describes their time in Oakhurst as being their final tour, implying they’ve likely been forced into at least two

the aforementioned piece of evidence becomes particularly concerning when you account for Apo being only 21

Apo states that they've never killed anyone. Now this could be simply due to the fact that Apo wasn’t combat-oriented, but considering everything else we know about her, it does make me wonder if Apo actually HAS killed someone, but repressed the memory (which would be crazy Pyro parallels)

never talks about family, only ever mentions Cherri. I’ve mentioned how I think Apo’s family is dead and/or terrible before, but again, could just be coincidental but I’m making a case

Apo is such a mystery throughout the series. She’s not lying like Martyn, but she almost never tells anyone anything about her

The fear of blood—we can guess that Apo’s blood phobia was pre-Fernsfield massacre, so that likely crosses off the massacre itself causing that fear, though I could be entirely incorrect on this front. I say this because it’s the easy, sensible answer, and the implication that it might not be this major traumatic event that originally caused her fear haunts me. (Though in all likelihood it majorly worsened it)

and finally—I’ve heard secondhand someone talking about a conversation Apo and Legs had on stream, where Legs states he never meant to imply his character commited cannibalism, and Apo responds with “I commited cannibalism” It could have been a normal vampire joke but the Potential of it being pre-Oakhurst Apo makes me deeply curious and concerned, because it WOULD ALSO TRACK with blood never tasting good to Apo, and also make the preference I think she has for raw meat (and the eating raw meat while human scene) absolutely bonkers intriguing on that context

In the years immediately following the war, after the horror of what he had done crashed down onto him too late, Legundo's mind had been consumed with numbers. It had been a feverish obsession, trying to pinpoint the exact measure of his sins. Obviously, he knew the death toll of his singular worst action, but how many injured soldiers had he patched up and sent back out to die? Did he still hold the blame if they would have died nonetheless, if it was a sin of omission only? How many soldiers would have been expected to die capturing the town he instead taught to eat itself? He pored over records of casualties, torturing himself with the arithmetic of death, and he never came up with any number that gave closure.

Eventually the fanaticism of his self-immolation cooled, and he was able to admit the truth to himself: the exact quantity did not matter. Human life could not be calculated so coldly, and to pretend otherwise was a pastime of bureaucrats and nobles. It was an unsuitable habit indeed for a doctor.